maybe its time for some retraining

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/60-percent-united-states-wind-turbines-behind-on-maintenance.php

Might be lucrative for anyone that was recently "oursourced" or "downsized"....

Acrophobics need not apply....

I'd love to get into wind technology, but they are looking for engineers, and for me, that's a killer.

I'm not a math person at all, so engineering would be extremely difficult for me and that'll kill my job prospects in that industry.

PHeller wrote: I'd love to get into wind technology, but they are looking for engineers, and for me, that's a killer. I'm not a math person at all, so engineering would be extremely difficult for me and that'll kill my job prospects in that industry.

Well, as long as you belive it, it's true....

Seriously. I'd be willing to bet you could do it, if you really tried hard.

Eric

PHeller wrote: I'd love to get into wind technology, but they are looking for engineers, and for me, that's a killer. I'm not a math person at all, so engineering would be extremely difficult for me and that'll kill my job prospects in that industry.

let me go home then I'll post some stuff..

5 years ago I was in the suspended scaffolding industry. Most people know those as window washing platforms, though very little window washing gets done from them. Anyway, we were just starting to mess with wind turbine maintenance cages. I recently spoke to an old colleague and he said that in the last 2 years, that business has exploded. He said that the wind energy trade shows are tripling or quadrupling every year.

My only concern is that the idea will "E85 out" once everyone decides that they don't want a wind monster in their neighborhood.

EA85 lost because it was economically a loser. Corn prices spiked and poof.. Now farmers love wind turbines because they lose little to no tillable land, but recieve a paycheck every month from the turbines. check out http://www.nationalwind.org/

now..

there are a good # of non engineering jobs on http://www.jobtarget.com/c/search_results.cfm?site_id=770

Thats is the wind power association page..

also.. http://www.greendealsdaily.com/blog/greenjobs/

FWIW, I'm a degreed engineer, horrible with math. Just keep going and you'll get it. I worked in everything from shotgun barrel manufacturing to facilities engineering to turbocharger product development engineering. Work hard, there is a shortage of engineers out there.. Don't ever give up.

You also need an area that actually has wind. My father and his other two partners were recently in Texas for work (they own a technolgy company dealing with energy industries) and came back facinated with windmill farms. They didn't go out there for that, but took tours and asked questions. These things generate enormous power, but in areas without a lot of wind, they would be near useless. A slow wind day needs to be about 12 to 15 mph to make them feasible cost-wise, at least that is what they worked out.

Out here where I live there are TONS of windmills going up, there are some just massive wind farms. Granted as stated earlier you must have wind and that is something we have loads of. Hell just the other day crossing the mountain pass to Baker I got hit by a big enough dust devil to knock my truck into the next lane over. Crappy this was I had the windows down in the truck.